An arrest warrant affidavit filed in Lane County Circuit Court describes an alleged “quick change” scammer who fooled a Eugene cashier and is said to be part of a group that has been hitting stores nationwide for the last two years.
Lulugi Rostas, 30, was charged Tuesday, Sept. 22, with first-degree theft.
She is suspected by a security investigator of being part of a two-person team “presenting large sums of cash, asking cashiers to count and stage the money, then retrieving it under the pretense of recounting — during which they discreetly remove a portion before completing the transaction.”…